Vocabulary
Veggie Burger Listening with Script from ESL-Bits.com
Take a look at these words and look up the ones you don’t understand. Ask your teacher questions, too.
- Knockoff
- Genetics
- Genomics
- Cancer
- sabbatical
- tackle
- Destructive
- Environment
- Calories
- produced
- Livestock
- contributor to climate change
- Insane
- ecological footprint
- Dairy
- Ain’t
- Literally
- Deconstructing
- Composition
- molecular level
- Hemoglobin (heme)
- Gene
- Yeast
- vast quantities
- Season
- Skillet
- remarkably similar
- ground chuck
- Protein
- Bulk
- Caramelize
- to charge a premium
- indistinguishable
- Out-compete
Content Questions
Next, read the script while listening. Try to find the answers to these questions. Advanced speakers: Summarize the article while also answering all four of these questions.
- What did the researcher do?
- Why did he say he wanted to do it?
- What were the good qualities (things) about it?
- What were the bad qualities (things) about it?
Discussion Questions
Next, discuss the issue and the professor’s solution.
- What do you think about the professor’s solution?
- Have you ever tried a veggie burger? How was it? How was it similar and different to a beef burger?
- What do you know about the topic of climate change?
- What do you think about climate change? Do you think it is caused by humans?
- What is the environmental impact of livestock farming? What areas of livestock farming impact the environment the most and why?
- What do you think about these environmental impacts of livestock farming? Is it a problem? Should something be change
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